Welcome to a feature-filled Friday from the folks at Bäst i Test.
We put our cunning contestants through a cavalcade of crazy experiments--
--until one of them stands alone as the ultimate champion.
And this season's carrot-chasing guinea pigs are:
The maxed-out madame, Marie Agerhäll!
The clever kook, Torbjörn Averås Skorup!
The lively legend, Lotta Engberg!
The famous force of nature, Nour El Refai!
And the peculiar powerhouse, Eric Stern!
And tonight you will, among other things, get to see this:
No!
- Worst thing that's ever happened to me. - The hose of a primadonna.
- Na, na... Napple? Norange. - Oh, this is so boring.
- I'm having fun now, David. - I don't even care anymore.
Welcome back, panel.
Yes, it's the second week in a row and here we are again.
Still shocked after the premiere, or--how are you feeling?
Fantastic! It's so incredibly fun.
It's also a rinse-out of shame, like a catharsis. Which is both good and bad.
Yeah, you go through so much shame here that after this, it just gets better.
- Yeah, well, that's good. - Alright.
As with many times before, I have the dubious pleasure of being flanked--
--by a tiny moustachioed gentleman who's got nothing better to do than be my right-hand man.
You know who I mean: David Sundin.
Thank you, thank you. Thank you, thank you. Lovely words, Babben.
It's a sheer pleasure to spend yet another Friday evening in your company, of course.
And on top of all that, here comes a hearty shipment of our first test of the evening:
Don your legwarmers, it's time to hit the gym.
- Hi, David! - Hullo.
- You never know. - "Invent a new piece of exercise equipment."
"You must be able to use it and burn 40 calories with it."
- "Best exercise equipment wins." - "You have 20 minutes."
"Your time starts now." High-five!
How can I tell if I've burnt 40, though?
You're going to get to wear this, and I'm going to tell you.
Yes, the goal was to invent a new piece of exercise equipment.
And to prove that it worked, you had to burn 40 calories.
Whoever burns 40 calories the fastest has crafted the best piece of exercise equipment.
I don't get it, though. How do we know if it's new, and not just something that already exists?
Babben, I think you'll soon find that we've never seen any of this before.
Let's start with the fitness expert Torbjörn Averås Skorup.
40 calories. How's that done?
You'd like to sit down, like at a gym. Right?
- You'd like to sit down. - Is that a well-known way to burn calories?
- If it's... - Okay. Yeah. Yeah.
We've got something heavy, here. That's good.
- This is an anchor. - Correct.
It needs to have a cool name, too. PowerCross, TrainingExtra.
- Trawl for your mother-in-law in the wrong lake. - Is that its name?
Yeah. Isn't that a saying? The funniest thing we've done since we trawled for mother-in-law in the wrong lake.
People think a double-knot isn't good. They're like: "You've gotta do a reef knot."
Double always works the best. Gotta have a fender on your boat...
- There's a marine theme to...? - Yeah, well, we're out on the ocean, trawling.
- These sweatbands? - No, I'm sweating enough as it is.
- Well, they're for prevention. - That's right.
- David, I'm starting now! - And he's off.
- Looks pretty heavy, Torbjörn. - It's really hard!
- That's the point. - Yeah. How many, now?
- Two calories. - Two?!
Oh no! I trawled wrong! Got snagged on the seabed...
- The downside of having an anchor. - Yeah, I'm trawling...
...for my mother-in-law, but it was the wrong lake!
Oh, I'm trawling for my mother-in-law!
- But it was the wrong..ah! Oh! - Damn.
- Come on. - And he runs a penalty lap!
Do you exercise a lot in your day-to-day life? Oh, you don't?
That might be why you're flagging a bit.
Worst thing that's ever happened to me. I don't feel good.
There's still a decent amount of calories left, and not a lot of time.
You know what...I don't feel too good. I've made an extremely good piece of exercise equipment.
Nothing wrong with the equipment. Is it just your enthusiasm that's waning?
I mean, I've dug a hole in the ground! From all this trawling.
- Good work. - Thanks.
- See you on Thursday? - No.
- What will you be doing then? - Trawling for my mother-in-law in the wrong lake.
That's right!
Yes, things got a bit wheezy here. How bad is your stamina, really?
Absolutely terrible, and I was singing, too.
Right, then. In that case, which exercisers are up next?
It's time for more PE with Marie Agerhäll and Lotta Engberg.
What about this? Seen this before. It's super hard, too.
- How does your exercise equipment work? - I'm gonna get ducks, and put them here.
- What's it called? - Let's call it the hose.
The ultimate piece of exercise equipment to burn calories at breakneck speed.
Yeah, it's called Future Fashion Fusion, Workout Plan.
- Future Fashion Fusion...? - Workout Plan.
- You've started working out now? - Yup. The flagpole's a part of it.
So we're going to reach 40 calories, and I'm gonna try to keep an eye on it.
And this goes a bit further back, to make it a bit harder every time.
Let's elevate it a bit now too, so as to work out the...mullsus mösus.
♫ Who will your true love be? Is it you and me? ♫
- You've burnt more than ten calories. - That's all?!
The hose of a primadonna.
No...
We'll almost have to start returning the ducks, now.
- Or am I mistaken? - Let's take them back, then.
How'd they get so far away?
Whoa!
- Just ten calories to go. - There's no way.
The hose is bringing us together. We're making the same movements.
- Together. - Over and over and over again!
Just two calories to go, now. Here they come.
And that's 40 calories! Wow, wow, wow.
- See? I can go higher. Higher... - How high up can you get on the pole?
- Oh, David, if you only knew. - And you've done it!
- 40 calories. Exceptionally well done. - Thank you.
With this, the new Future...?
- Future Fashion...Duck Machine. - Bravo.
Yes, Lotta, is there anything else to add about this hose?
- Anything else you can use it for? - No...I was just thinking, now.
I didn't build anything, so I got started pretty early.
- And this was timed. - Yeah, that it was.
Might've been a bit smart, huh?
- But we've got two gym rats to go, huh? - Yes, let's tackle the rest.
In this case, the rest consists of Eric Stern and Nour El Refai.
Alright...ball.
- The ball's included? - Yeah, it's included.
No...this is hard.
It's a rope, a tube, and an umpire's chair.
Whoa!
- I didn't see that coming. - No.
- Duck, duck... - My heart rate's at 95 now, just from...
- Listening to your cool ideas. - Duck slalom. That's good! Duck slalom!
The tube can be more of an aesthetic touch.
- The body's not the only thing working out. - No, exactly!
Come on! How long does it take to turn on a watch?
- Set to 'Woman, 170 centimeters'. - 170?! I'm 160, David. Are you trying to lie to people that you...?
I'll treat you to a decimeter.
Let me just check...
- Right, yeah, I've got it. - A mix of sit-up...
...with a step-up, and also some sort of pull-up.
Oh, this is so boring!
- What's the equipment called? - It's called Duck...Duck...Duck.
Would working out be as much fun if you didn't have the aesthetic touch of the pipe?
No, because that's where you're supposed to look.
Your pulse is within the blue area. You need to make it to red.
It's kind of very provocative when you're standing stock-still, and I'm moving around like crazy.
Exercise is, after all, a gift for your future self, Eric.
You don't have to think about your current self, struggling.
You think about the other guy, future-Eric.
That's good. Keep doing this for four minutes.
Ah!
- Is this piece of equipment called anything? - Uh...The Man.
This is where the pipe's touch comes in. A rolling touch.
- Look at that, yeah! We're onto something! - Shit, look at that burn...
And the calories just keep on coming!
Ten calories and three minutes to go.
Incredible.
- Two minutes to go. - You've gotta take breaks sometimes.
That's exercise, too. Contemplation.
Considering your life decisions. How did I get here?
- Active rest. - You were far past 40, though.
- Active rest. Is that exercise? - Yeah.
- What? - It's a type of exercise.
That form of exercise is new to me.
- What's going on? - The small muscle groups.
Three, two, one, zero.
You reached your caloric goal. I forgot to say.
- I did?! - Yeah.
- Good work. Nice to see. - Same to you.
- How many...? - Well, it was past 40.
I forgot to say that, but I was busy with all my own stuff.
When I'm tackling two things at the same time, it's a bit tricky.
- I opted to focus on the timer. Ah, dammit.
Eric, now that future-Eric is here in the here and now-- how satisfied are you with The Man?
I'm really satisfied, since it also challenges what a Man can do.
Well, I think it's an all-round workout in a beautiful environment, sort of.
You get to see this bastion above you.
What muscle gets worked by butt-bumps?
Well, that's the pyramidalis. A teeny-tiny muscle, barely used.
Right, then. Let's sum this up. How'd they do?
Torbjörn didn't burn 40 calories at all. One point for him.
Two for Marie, three for Lotta and four for Nour.
And the fastest to reach 40 burned calories... the first fiver of the night goes to Eric!
- That's good. - Wow!
Congratulations, Eric "The Man" Stern. So what happens now?
We'll get to see after a small power-break. In the meantime, here's a test for those of you at home.
Everyone in the household: Try to sneeze.
The first one to sneeze a genuine sneeze wins.
Your time starts now.
Welcome back. We're all warmed up-- Now, what does the next test revolve around?
It revolves around point A, point B, and everything in-between.
- Hi, David. - Hello!
- Ah, David. - That's right.
- Got an envelope for me? - Sure do.
- Pretty obvious. - Pretty obvious, yeah. I missed it.
"Prevent David from getting from point A to point B.
"You may not move, touch, or destroy the letters. Or David."
"David starts his transportation from point A..."
"...to point B in 30 minutes."
"The person who gets David to reach point B in the longest time wins."
"Your time starts now."
Where's B, then?
- Could the B be super tiny? - Hard to know.
Point A to point B.
- Do you know where it is? - Yeah.
So: The goal was to prevent me from, after 30 minutes of chilling out...
...getting up from point A and venturing to point B.
But you weren't allowed to lay hands on me to stop me, so the goal was to solve it in some inventive way.
Which obstacle-builders are the first to set out?
That'll be the holy Trinity: Eric, Torbjörn and Marie.
Where's point B, then?
- I might be looking for a B. - Yeah.
Point B? Could be high up.
- I see B! I found B! - You found it.
- Ha ha! There it is. - I have to think, now.
I'll try to wall you in a little, to make it extra hard.
I'll build in a... that'll take way too long.
Or...? Wait. Can I lock the door?
This may be too radical, but now, I have no inhibitions.
Our dear Sundin's in trouble, now.
Let's barricade this...
Did I check to see everything's locked? One final check of all the windows...
Window, window, window. No--well, it is a house. Can't come in from the outside.
He's got keys, of course.
- Do you have a key? - Yes.
- Ah! - No!
You can't get in, now!
- It's gonna be really hard, David. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I see now that this is, like... mostly decoration.
Three, two, one, zero.
- Made it really pretty. - Uh huh? Yeah.
Whoa! Whoa, what happened? Was that an obstacle?
I don't know about this. Is this the overall standard of quality?
Yeah, that's the overall standard of quality, David.
No! It's locked?
- The door was locked. - Oh!
Oh, no. No.
Oh, be a dear and hold this.
...This is negative.
I'm just using air to help him get in, now.
Oh! God, you're nimble.
No one's in there, right?
Oh, you're so smart.
- But I did have...I had... - Yeah, I forgot to ask about the key.
You've been awfully busy, haven't you?
Oh...
- I'm not all that pleased. - Oh.
- There it is. - That's B.
- Good work! - No.
Marie...?
- That was quite a battle. Good work. - Thanks.
Oh, Eric! Oh!
- I'm heading down now. - God, that's rough.
- Bit of sorrow in your eyes, Eric. - Yeah...
I sacrificed so much, and it still didn't work out.
Bit of a common denominator for you. There were keys, there were open windows...
I did go around, saying: "The windows are closed." That was just something I said.
But we were very good as a combo. You got the keys. I got the windows.
- If the two of you had been a single person... - It'd all have worked out.
- But Marie, you filled up the staircase. - Unfortunately, I mostly fell over myself.
An obstacle course for me.
- What times did they get, then? - Well, let's see...
Torbjörn limited my access for 2 minutes and 1 second.
Marie prevented me for 3 minutes and 28 seconds.
Eric kept me away from point B for 6 minutes and 16 seconds!
And with that, he's in the lead so far!
But still, this feels like a beatable time.
Who's up next?
Two femme fatales in combat boots. Lotta Engberg and Nour El Refai.
- If I get you stuck in that chair... - I'd have a hard time walking...if I'm stuck in this chair.
- Does that feel good? - Terrific.
- You're going to have a hard time leaving A, now. - I couldn't just...do this?
I'm having fun now, David. Are you having fun, too?
- I'm not moving you, now. - No.
- A glass of water. - Ah. Alright.
- There. - Here I come.
- That was an easy one. - And you'd kind of placed these around my toes, so...
That does complicate things a little.
- No! Dammit. - On y va.
I'm going to be walking here, now. You won't want to touch me.
David? Hi, hi!
That cheat with the window-- that's such a drag.
No!
No! No, David.
- Thanks! - Well done.
What were you planning? Getting him stuck to that chair?
I never got to grips with where B was.
- So that's why you worked on the spot? - Well, what else was I supposed to do?
Nour, you really tightened those knots.
As soon as I was allowed to tape David however much I wanted--
--I had such a lot of fun. I think this might be the peak of my Bäst i Test-experience.
Still, we're interested to hear their times.
Right. Lotta prevented me for 2 minutes and 33 seconds.
Positioning herself between Torbjörn and Marie.
Nour's tighter knots blocked me for a whopping 7 minutes and 54 seconds.
Lovely. That's great.
Which gives us every piece of the jigsaw to be able to distribute the points.
Well, not quite yet. There was this little detail...
You weren't allowed to touch me.
There was one contestant who actually did. Let's take a look at that.
- Do you have the key? - You're touching.
This speaks for itself, doesn't it?
There was contact, Torbjörn, which wasn't allowed.
You're discarded like yesterday's newspaper, and get zero points in this test.
Thus, Lotta gets two points, three for Marie, four for Eric--
And the fiver goes to our El Refai!
Thank you, thank you.
Well, I'm getting a little bit peckish, sitting here. Got anything to serve up?
Yes, allow me to settle your hunger with a meaty mission.
- Hi! - Hullo.
- Hi, hi. - Aha!
God, that's so gross.
God, that's gross. Like--come on.
- "Make a kabanos." - "You may only use eight ingredients."
"Each ingredient should start with a letter from the word 'kabanos'."
"You have five minutes to order your ingredients, and 20 minutes to prepare your sausage."
"Tastiest sausage wins."
"You may not order sausage."
"Your time starts now."
- This many ingredients? - That's right. It's like a shopping list, one might say.
- What's that? - Casing.
- The intestine of the pig itself. - Ah--god, that's good.
Like a sausage skin, one might say.
[Eric writes 'Sausage skin'] - Which we already have for you. Prepared.
I've actually made sausage, you know.
- What did we use? We want meat. - Great choice.
- Bacon would be nice, I think. - I want cinnamon.
- Bearnaise. - Banana.
- Mayo. - Orange.
- Cheese. Cheese! - Cheese!
Cheese! I'll go for cheese. What else does one want in a sausage?
- Do I want alcohol, maybe...? - On the side would be nice.
- Two A's to go, then. - Yeah. A...A...
Aromat. Elevate the flavor. Aromat. The best spice!
- Mustard. Yeah! - Which saves you from putting it on the sausage.
- Exactly! Metchup. - Metchup would've been perfect. Or netchup.
- So we can tell this is moving more in the afters-direction. - A dessert sausage?
In that case, why not go for some cloves? That starts with K, though.
What?!
What?
Napple, norange, nanana?
O...? O...oh, oh...
- Uneasiness? Anxiety? [Obehag, oro] - No feelings in the sausage.
- No feelings in the sausage...sacramental bread? - Sacramental bread.
- Which leaves us with one last A, which is... - Evening prayer. [Aftonbön]
Alright, so K and N to go.
- Cap! [keps] - With an 'ä'?
- Nils! - Two, one, zero.
We did talk a little bit about mustard and metchup...you took 'cap' instead of ketchup.
I'll get this sorted, then.
- Get ready to stuff some sausage. - Alright!
- Take this note and go shopping. - Great.
God, this is disgusting.
Yes, you picked a merry mix of ingredients here.
I doubt this is going to be edible.
Well, we haven't seen the most important segment yet: The sausage-stuffing in question.
But before we get that, it's time to stuff ourselves away for a moment.
After the break, a celebrity chef will show up to taste-test the panel's sausages.
Welcome back! We're right in the middle of sausage-stuffing.
The entire panel's gotten to order ingredients--
--the initial letters of which form the word 'kabanos'.
Funnily enough, only Lotta and Torbjörn ordered 'meat'.
The others are stuffing up the wrong tree. Only the actual craftsmanship to go.
Which sausage-manufacturers are first up?
Well, Babben--here's every sausage, everywhere, all at once.
Sounds good to me!
Right. You've got your bits and bobs assembled.
No!
Here are the ingredients, and Nils, just like you asked for.
That's Nils!
- And I...didn't think of meat. - That would've been nice, in a sausage.
Your time starts now.
Nils, you're too cute! Nils might want a little sausage. That's what you meant, right?
And we've got banana. ...very tough banana.
And basoon pork, as the old folks say.
- What was he thinking with this? - No one's thought...it's just him, up there. And basoon pork, as the old folks say.
- What was he thinking with this? - No one's thought...it's just him, up there.
Why do I feel like I'm at the gynecologist's or something?
- The other way around. - No.
- Casing sounds like a last name, huh. - Jan-Erik Casing.
- This water, too, that's just been lying around. It's all so gross. - Makes you just wanna...
David!
Ah, typical. God, I'm making such a mess. So gross.
- Aromat. - Enhances flavor.
- Bearnaise. This'll be good. - The fishes.
- You have a blender? - And we're off!
- I find this a bit gross. - Alright.
- There we go! - A new world opens.
It's a gross world, though.
- Oh, god dammit. - Think of it as a balloon.
- No, no! - Could you hold this?
No, well--you have to get all of it up there.
- Look, here it comes. - It doesn't look great.
Crank, crank, crank...
- What's this hair poking out of the intestine? - Has to be your own, personal hair.
We've lost Nils, too.
It's customary to mix beforehand... this is turning into a rainbow sausage.
- I just want this to be over. - A little bit of emphasis on the cheese.
See how cool this is? It almost is like a balloon now-- like we asked you to imagine it as. Fun.
- Look! Look, look! - It's so gross.
But if you...it's so creepy when you do that small whisper. What?
First rule of sausage club: Don't whisper.
- I don't have time for this. - Three minutes to go.
- Going for manual stuffing? - Yeah.
- Let's call it finished, then. - Oh, you're great at this!
This feels like some manner of optical illusion.
- This is all happening right now, Eric. - Yeah, I understand, but I don't get it.
Why's it vanishing into nothing? Where's it going?
- Well, a lot of it's on the ground. - Yeah, but not all of it!
There it is! The sausage-- now we're entering sausage mode.
It looks absolutely disgusting, huh.
A pair of balls at the end of the sausage.
No! What the hell are you doing!?
- Eric! So damn disgusting! - Two, one, zero.
- There it is. - So gross!
- The sausage in its entirety. - Ugh, dammit!
Presentation is everything. Marie's summer sausage.
- Three, two, one, zero. - God, that's disgusting.
- ...Finger. It's a finger. - Don't look, then!
Right, sorry, but before we do anything else-- Eric, were you trying to blow the batter into the casing?
Yeah, well--without meat, the sausage isn't too cooperative. At that point, you need to use force.
- We'll have to take another look at this. - No, no...
Can't believe it inflated completely! But looking back in hindsight, it did work.
I must say, these sausages did look a little bit experimental.
But I've called in a guest judge, as well as a culinary champion--
A round of applause for Markus Aujalay!
Welcome to the show.
You've received the noble task of grading these sausages.
- Any good, this? - First of all...
...I don't know why all of you thought making the sausages was so tough.
I mean, I've had to taste them.
You've got nothing to complain about, really.
It's been a challenge. I've never experienced anything like it.
- Not all of them actually maintained the sausage shape. - No, they've been cooked here, and...
Three sausages have burst.
- And you've tasted them? - Yeah. Emphatically.
- Could you present the results for us? - Mhm.
- One point for Marie's sausage. - Why?
- Or, well, sausage...your ingredients. - More like pölsa, huh?
- Two points for Eric's dessert variety. - Oh, that's nice!
Innovative, but not great.
Three points: That's Nour's sausage.
I can't believe you've tasted that. My admiration for you is tremendous.
- There's no limits to it. - Thank you, that warms my heart.
- You needed that, Markus. - Yeah, exactly!
Still, there's two here that look fairly good.
- The ones that contain meat? - Four points...Torbjörn.
Which means that Lotta gets five points.
Thank you very much for your sacrifice and taking one for the team. Markus Aujalay!
Thanks.
Right, good thing we got Markus for this. And by the way, what are we competing for tonight?
Nothing other than a luxury deli platter featuring the remnants of the panel's sausages. Look at that!
- Whoa! Whoa, whoa, whoa.
And just to note, Markus Aujalay is not included in the prize experience.
Which brings us to the point of the show which God forgot, namely the middle of the show.
Let's brace ourselves a few minutes for subpar interview technique, disproportionate confidence and bad vibes.
Signed and postmarked David Sundin.
Thank you, thank you. Thank you, thank you. Wow! Great.
You know what, Babben? Preparation is the be-all and end-all for us journalists.
I've done some research for a deep-diving conversation with...
...Lotta Engberg!
- Yeah! - How nice.
- Lotta, what do you do for a living? - I usually sing a bit.
- Fun. - Yeah, it is, isn't it?
Keep going with that. That could be your thing.
I'm thinking we'll do a round of quick favorites, you and me.
- Favorite flavor? - Yeah. ...You're asking?
- Favorite lever? - The car's.
- Favorite styrofoam? - The white kind.
- Favorite-favorite? - You, David.
Thank you, thank you! It's been great to get to hear some more about your favorites...
Getting a bit closer to you, getting beneath the skin.
But enough about you, because it's namely time to play Babben's favorites!
Yes, it's time to play Babben's favorites. Wonderful. Exciting. Lotta, there's a letter behind you--
--which you can take out and read.
"Avoid saying Babben's favorites." Avoid.
"David will choose one category per round."
"Your mission is to say words from every category."
"You may not say a word that doesn't exist--"
"--a word that's already been mentioned, or which isn't included in the category."
"Last one standing wins."
So, if I say that the category is Babben's favorite color--
--you have to not say Babben's favorite color.
- Does everyone get the gist? - Yes.
In that case, let's start by having everyone stand up. You have five seconds.
The category is: Babben's favorite part of the Christmas spread.
Christmas ham.
- Mustard. - Herring.
- Gingerbread. - Jansson's.
- Mustard herring. - Sausage.
Jansson's temptation. No!
I'm sorry, Lotta, that one had already been mentioned.
- The correct answer was risalamande. - Ah!
Torbjörn starts this time. Babben's favorite body part.
- The earlobe. - The nose.
- The heel. - The arm.
- The kneecap. - The eyes.
- The little finger. - The weiner.
- The bangs. - The hair at the back of the neck.
The earlobe.
- I'm going to sit down. - Double earlobe. The correct answer was breast.
Nour's time to start, then. The category is:
Babben's favorite female name starting with S.
- Go ahead. - Sigurd.
- Sigurd. What?! Sigurd? - That's a male name.
Oh, that's actually funny!
It should be said that you were up first, Nour, and had every imaginable name to choose from.
The correct answer was Sofia.
Finale. Here comes the category. Marie's up first.
Babben's favorite non-decimal number between zero and nine.
- Eight. - Seven?
- I don't get this at all. - Seven was correct.
- Oh, no. That's great, though! - Marie wins!
And that's how we play Babben's favorites!
Very refreshing, I think. How'd the points get distributed here?
One point for Lotta, two for Eric, three for Nour, four for Torbjörn.
- And five points for Marie. - Good!
Let's move on, then--with a test, no less.
- Do we have anything to say about it? - Oh, well...this one's a real classic, you know.
Raise the curtain and pull the tablecloth off-- here it comes.
- Thanks! - Go ahead.
"Set the table, and then yank off the tablecloth." Whoa!
Oh, this is so fun. "It's up to you how you want to set the table."
"If anything falls onto the ground, your attempt does not count."
"Most things on the table after yanking the tablecloth wins."
"Your latest attempt is the one that counts."
"Bonus points for nicest-set table during a successful attempt."
"You have ten minutes."
- God, what movie is that? - All of them, almost.
- "Songs from the second floor"? - "Ghostbusters".
This is what I choose to get stuck on...
He sets a table really nicely, and then he yanks away the tablecloth.
No? Alright, that's it from me, then.
Yes--so, the goal was to yank the tablecloth off and still have things on the table.
Nothing was allowed to fall off the table, or your cloth-yanking would not count.
But since your last approved attempt is what you're using to compete, you have to know when to stop.
Sounds a bit sticky, but of course, the tablecloth must take its toll.
It certainly must--but first, a short break.
Hello, all you lovely viewers!
We're in the middle of a test that revolves around yanking a tablecloth from a table--
--without the objects on top of it falling off.
Might get a bit sticky. Who's first up to bat?
- Well, about that--may I tempt you with Eric, Marie and Lotta? - You may.
It's gonna be like, flop. Alright, so it's not allowed to fall...on the ground?
Which it does, when you yank it. ...That's right, it shouldn't do that! Exactly.
- If one sugar cube falls, it's fine, right? - If one sugar cube falls, the attempt doesn't count.
Pretty it up a bit, like this.
- Let's see, then. - That's so pretty!
Good. This is when I conduct the daring try.
This is the starting point.
If this works, we don't need to do anything else.
- One, two, three. - Whoa!
...almost everything came along with it.
- Let's sneak our way up. - One crust of bread and one candleholder.
I didn't even tug. That was the wind!
- You with me? - Always.
Dammit!
Right now, this is your foremost attempt.
Were you surprised that you managed that? 'Cause I was.
Lovely.
- Yeah, it's still on the table. - Two minutes to go!
- Yes! - Everything's still there.
Bonus points for most beautifully-set table.
- Are you chasing that bonus point? - I've left that behind.
Babben will have to turn a blind eye to the actual spread.
You had a good result. Can you beat it?
- Whoa! - Does it count when it's knocked over?
Remains to be seen. One minute to go.
- I don't care about anything anymore. - Earlier, we cared about some things.
Yeah, but now we don't.
- You with me? - I'm always with you.
- Oh! - Lovely.
Alright!
- Whoa! That's something to be pleased with. - Terrific!
One, two, three.
Everything's left on the table. Ten seconds to go.
- Do you want to try again? - No, I'm done.
- Good work. - Amazing.
Eric, at first you performed some sort of mini-yank.
- What did you think? - That it'd stay there.
But after performing a larger yank, the rules of the mini-yank failed to apply to the larger yank.
- But Marie, you were a born cloth-yanker! - Yeah, well, I think the wind helped me.
- The air got under the tablecloth. - Is this something you've done before?
- I do it a lot at home. - Oh! Lovely.
- What were they results? - On his final attempt, Eric made 14 things stay.
Marie had 36 things on her final attempt. And Lotta, on the other hand?
It might've looked a little modest, but there were a lot of biscuits and sugar cubes there...
- She landed a whopping 53 things on the table! - Oh, damn!
There's still a few more to go, isn't there?
Correct. First, let's look at how things went for Nour El Refai.
God, these buns are dry. You didn't bake these yourself, that's obvious.
This is dull, I think. I've got dull material to work with.
- You've poured out milk, too. - I didn't do that.
This was, like...entirely something you brought from the get-go.
When it comes to that, I'm a bit more "Spilled milk? Huh!", and you're a little bit more...
- Are you ready? - Yes.
- Oh, so smart. - No, it fell down!
A little biscuit. The rest remains.
- In that case, you just have to... - Can I pour it down?
- What about that biscuit? - No, that can stay where it is.
It's lost its chance to be on television.
Are we in the running for a bonus point for most beautifully-set table? Let's see.
Heave-ho!
- Oh, oh. - No!
Let's go. Yank that cloth!
- No! - One Finnish stick there, yeah.
- Now, now, now...no. - No!
- Dammit! - A clothespin. 55 seconds to go!
One thing.
Yes, one thing remains. Plus jam and a few crumbs.
Great to see. Good work.
I'm so disappointed.
Nour, your strategy was smart, but your patience!
When the biscuit rolls off, and I take that personally... It's like it's doing it to me.
Then I get stuck in indignance, and...well, anyway.
Yeah, you had plenty of enemies on that table. I'm sorry.
- How'd things go for Nour? - Nour had one thing remaining on the table...
Which means that Lotta retains the lead.
Very accurate, but we've got one little trickster to go.
Yes indeed, and that trickster is none other than Torbjörn Averås Skorup...?
- I'm going to yank that cloth. - I believe you.
- We can wait a bit with that one. - You're setting the table nicely first?
- I don't really know what Babben likes. If she, like... - Where's the tablecloth?
Wasp...welcome.
- Cut away. This isn't good for my...you ready? - I'm ready.
- I'm yanking, now. - No!
And as far as I can see, everything remains in position.
- Yeah, that was nice. - Take it. Take it.
- Take it. Thanks! - Good work. Great to see.
It's almost like a magic trick. You can't understand how it works.
Good thinking, I think. Nowhere in the letter did it say that the tablecloth needed to be under everything.
You took advantage of that. And the results were?
Nour had one thing on the table, which gives one point.
Eric's 14 things gives him two points. Three points for Marie for 36 things.
Lotta had 53 things on the table. Four points.
But Torbjörn had all 79 things on the table, netting five points.
- It's a bit, it's a bit... - I think it's cheating.
Nour had the loveliest spread--
--but that was a failed attempt, so you don't get the bonus point.
Torbjörn had the second-loveliest spread, netting you the bonus point.
Wow! Six points!
You've got no friends left on the panel, but that's another problem.
Everyone's happy and the points are flowing, but it's time to move on.
Yes, and the next test revolves around pulling various levers and valves...
- ...without quite knowing why. - Much like life itself.
- Whoopdeedoo! - Whoop-dee-doo.
Wow! God, I like this stuff. Driving trains and planes.
"Do whatever you want for five minutes."
"After that, you'll perform a test in the lab for five minutes."
"The test is affected by the changes you've made to the settings."
That's so fun! "Your time starts when David's sure that you understand the letter."
- You should write that on all of them. - That'd be good.
Yes, for five minutes you were allowed to fiddle with these levers and controls--
--exactly as you wanted, if you wanted.
I'm going to illustrate this with a timeline showing five minutes.
During this time, you did something here, or maybe there, or just a bit at the tail-end here.
Then, once you enter the lab, the timeline gets replayed--
--which means things happen, depending on what you've done to the buttons.
I don't know why this is reminding me of Kurt Olsson. Who's first?
To press, or not to press--first up is Lotta and Torbjörn.
- So, you've understood the letter? - Yeah.
In that case, your five minutes starts now.
What you think automatically is not to touch anything.
But I have to do all of them upside-down at some point. But I can't touch that one. "Do not touch."
I'll try my own letter.
Now you know that after one minute in there, something will happen.
You know what? I might not really want to do anything.
What could these letters be? What's V? Water, wine...
- Volume. - Volume. Yeah.
- Viktor Frisk. - Ah! I'm kidding.
- We could turn that on for a bit. - Can I? I don't think so.
- Three minutes to go. - I don't want to do anything else.
No, I'm pleased with this.
Five, four, three, two, one, zero.
Let's go to the lab, then. Exciting.
- You can step up on this, then. - Whoa.
- "Balance tees on the board." - "You have five minutes."
"Most balanced tees when your time is up wins."
"Your time starts when David's sure that you understand the letter."
Your time starts now.
- What did you press after one minute? - L.
- It was L. That stands for sound. [Ljud] - Oh!
- I think V is vibration. - What's D, then?
- Disco. - Oh, so fun!
Just have to keep your body loose. I feel like I'm losing a ton of weight!
- It's one of those infomercial-deals. - Good thing you didn't press a ton of buttons, then.
So many tees!
- Oh...R is smoke. [Rök] - Yes.
- 15. - No!
Three, two, one, zero.
- Good work. - Thank you.
- Good work. - Thank you very much. It was really...
Whoa! Look at that!
That doesn't count, right? It was over, right? That was great.
Right, here was the explanation.
Every lever was connected to something that made the actual task more difficult--
--that is, balancing as many tees as possible on the shelf.
K stood for confetti, V for vibration, L stood for sound--
--R for smoke, D for disco and S for stroboscope.
"Do not touch" should, of course, not be touched at all.
Was it tough to avoid fiddling with the controls too much?
Super tough. I just wanted to go 'pow, pow'!
How many tees did they have on the shelf when they were done?
After her little accident, Lotta had 20 tees remaining on the shelf.
- Are you sitting down? - I think so.
- Torbjörn assembled a whopping 43 tees. - Hot damn!
- Incredible! - Who's teeing up next?
Before we watch the rest of these brilliant minds, it's time for a short break.
Welcome back. We're currently in the middle of a test which revolves around balancing golf tees on a shelf.
But your circumstances were affected based on the amount of levers you pulled.
So far, we've got Torbjörn in the lead. It's time to check Eric and Marie.
And now we know that the less you pull the levers--
--the easier it gets as you carefully place the tees.
I have a sneaking suspicion that Marie's just fired on all cylinders.
It's going to be fun to see.
Your five minutes starts now.
- And we're off. - Yeah.
Like house music!
That's what I'm saying!
That's what I said!
- Do you think anything here can come back to haunt you? - Yeah, this.
- This place smells like dude. - Thanks. Your time starts now.
No...no! No! So weird!
The question is, when you...
- But if one falls, that's fine. - Yeah, it's fine.
K stands for confetti. Did you hit the K-button multiple times?
Alright...no!
God, what a nightmare. Ah!
- So mean! - V's probably the vibrating plate.
- Ow! - The whole shelf shook.
No!
And rest.
You might've been a bit calmer at this point. Could seize the moment.
Four minutes to go, then.
Yeah, this is when...it starts here. This is where I'm doing the crazy stuff.
- Do you think anything here can come back to haunt you? - Yeah, this.
You're the one who did this to yourself.
It's not something I'm doing to you.
If I didn't press K, this is going to work out.
- Ow! How do you not cover your ears?! - What'd you say? 35 seconds to go.
Oh no!
- Currently: Nothing. 25 seconds. - How'd that even happen?
- You had so many, earlier. - I'm almost starting to tear up.
Four, three, two, one, zero.
- Lovely, but we did get some... - Confetti.
Yes, my god. What was this experience like for the two of you?
My wardrobe sabotaged me. I think it was the tassels, which like--
Eric, you also adopted an Agerhällian approach.
- Why am I getting blamed for this, now? - Well, it's the Marie-style.
Sometimes, spontaneous is good.
Sometimes you want to live like there's no tomorrow.
It's like when parents of toddlers go out clubbing.
- Tomorrow is another day. - Yeah, this is the morning after.
At any rate...how many tees did Marie and Eric manage?
Eric performed the majority of this test while covering his ears.
But still, somehow, managed to get 12 tees onto the shelf.
Marie had a ton of tees. Like, an absolute ten.
And then almost all of them fell down, leaving only eleven.
We do have one butterfingered lever-puller left, who can turn everything on its head. Nour El Refai, of course.
Your time starts now.
Exactly. Well, maybe I'll...
No! You did it!
- And I'm done, there. - We've also got...the time.
- We could just chat. How're you doing? - Doing good.
Doing well.
Your time starts now.
What happened? What happened there? Are you seeing this?
No! That's what happened. I remember now.
- And that's it. - You can't do that. David...
- It all went black. - I can see why I don't remember this.
Everything went black.
I'm happy someone pressed it. I'm really grateful.
- Got to know, at least. - Yeah, it was great.
So, how do the points get distributed in this test?
One point for Nour, two for Marie, three for Eric, four for Lotta--
--and yet another five-pointer for Torbjörn!
- In that case, I'm curious about the totals. - In that case, I'll tell you.
It's fairly cool and exciting, actually.
We've got Marie with 16 points. Nour with 17 points.
Eric with 18 points. Lotta with19 points.
And Torbjörn with 20 points in the lead!
And don't forget that the winner of tonight's show gets to bring home--
--an exclusive deli platter, featuring the remains of your sausages.
Don't nibble any more of that, Markus. Save it for the winner.
As you know, anything can happen and everything can change, because it's time for the finale.
Yes, it's time for the finale. How exciting.
Torbjörn, read for your co-contestants, Babben, the audience and those at home.
"Within your teams, show one face and one leg in the two holes."
"After that, Babben will guess if the leg belongs to the same person as the face."
"After three rounds, whichever team Babben has had the most incorrect guesses with wins."
This is a little bit unfair, here. There's three of you and two of you.
Let's even out your team with a returning Markus Aujalay!
Now, just to clarify this.
You take turns to enter the booth as a team--
--sticking one face out through this hole--
--and one leg out through this hole. You're trying to trick Babben.
Let's start with your team, moving towards this hole.
I'm going to pull the curtain here. Not too many faces to choose from.
Just have to pick whichever you prefer.
- So, Babben... - Yeah.
- ...we have a face. - Yes.
- Which probably belongs to Eric. - That's Eric.
- But is this Eric's foot? - I don't believe that's Eric's foot.
May I ask the person who definitely isn't--
--a part of this game to exit the booth?
And, since we now see Eric here...
May I ask Markus to come out?
Which means that this was Eric's leg and Eric's face.
And now, we ask the other team to get on their marks.
Ow! Oh! Ow!
- Go ahead, Babben. - Yes.
- This is Lotta. - Yes, I'm inclined to agree.
- But is this Lotta's foot? - Look at me, Lotta.
- I think that's Lotta's foot. - Babben thinks that's Lotta's foot.
Which would mean that we could ask Torbjörn to exit the booth.
- There he is, yes. - But can we ask Nour to exit?
- Nour...? - Oh. Alright.
Each of you have tricked Babben. Your turn to enter.
- Incredibly thrilling. - Certainly is.
The team's on their mark. Let's see, then.
- Are you ready, Babben? - Yes.
In that case, I introduce to you: A face and a leg.
Yeah...can you wiggle your toes a bit, Markus?
No, that's not his leg.
May I ask the person who has no part of this setup to come out?
- That's Marie again. - Me again, yeah.
Eric, can you also come out?
- No! - And he can.
God, this is so hard.
The team gets on their mark. What a cool, exciting game.
- Are you done? - Yeah.
Lotta there, yes.
And we've got what we, in this sport, usually refer to as a twistaroo.
- Is that Lotta's foot? - Yes, it is.
You're saying yes? May I ask the person who isn't involved to leave the booth?
That worked.
- May I ask Torbjörn to exit? - Oh!
Which means it seems like it is Lotta's. Wow!
- Acrobatic! - It's 2-1, then.
As we enter the final round.
Do we...?
- If I take my leg out... - Exactly, exactly.
- Alright. Are you ready? - Mhm.
- Let's go, then. - Yeah.
- That's Eric. - Here he is. That's Eric.
So, Babben, the question is... does this foot belong to Eric Stern?
- No, I don't think so. - Babben says no.
Can Marie come out? She could.
- It's exciting, now. - I'm in hysterics.
If Markus can exit the booth, but the foot remains...
...they've tricked you again, Babben. May I ask Markus to exit?
- No! - What the fuck?!
And with that, it's over! We have a winning team!
Welcome back to the couch, and we'll see who the winner is.
That was really hard. Incredibly hard, I must say.
- Can you calculate the results? - Yes, points need delivering.
We got one winning team.
Which means three points each for Eric, Marie and Markus Aujalay.
- Yes, Markus Aujalay. - Thank you so much, Markus.
If we sum these points up with the earlier points--
--things get slightly exciting, and we have a final result.
In fourth place we find Nour El Refai, 17 points.
In a shared third place we find Lotta and Marie, 19 points each.
- Look at that, huh. - Torbjörn got 20 points.
But at the top, we find Eric Stern. 21 points!
One point made the difference! And what do you win? Well, take a gander--
- Look at that tastiness! - The deli platter!
- Here you go. - Yeah, god...mm.
And what have we learned tonight? Don't try to inflate a sausage.
Don't pull unknown levers. And the tablecloth? Well, it takes its toll.
We'll be back next Friday, 20:00 on TV4.
And whenever you want on TV4 Play. Come on, let's congratulate Eric.
Translation: DangBream Text: Johanna Svensson, Iyuno